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“I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.”

Firsts Has Beens Growth Born Mystery First Time Europe Incredibles China Speed Fascinated Fascination Bicycle

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.”

Children Today America House Parent Born Chance Growing Up Growing Couple Married Europe Reverence Units Sweden Unmarried Married Couples

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.”

Years Born Existence Democracy Grew Husband Grew Up Europe Twenties Moved Various Israel Experiments My Husband Dictatorship Socialist Brazil Utopian Filthy

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg.”

People Knows Done Mother Father Born Dad Mets Singing Research Europe Moved Raised My Dad Italian Rome Opera Alabama Denmark Copenhagen

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“I was born in Eastern Europe, in Latvia, and I'm fluent in Russian.”

Born Europe Eastern Eastern Europe Fluent Latvia

Author:Ksenia Solo

“Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.”

Romance Belief Born Imagination Accepting Christianity Europe Filled Spread Contradiction Superstitions Absurdity Metaphysical Ardent Imbeciles

Author:Frederick The Great

“My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.”

Facts Born Teach Europe India Significance Dharma

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.”

“In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.”

Ifs Want Writing Trying Children Born Community Taken Europe Raises Germany Islamic Representatives Blank Sheets

Author:Bassam Tibi

“Luckily I was not born in Eastern Europe, because I might have been born into the communist establishment and I'm glad I was not. But in Israel, communists were dissidents. So you grow up in an environment which is very critical of Israeli policies.”

Has Beens Might Grows Born Growing Up Environment Policy Europe Israel Critical Glad Communist Establishment Eastern Might Have Been Israeli Eastern Europe Dissidents

Author:Amira Hass

“In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.”

Two Social Born Church Race Study Century Discipline Authority Highest Enlightenment Europe Posts 19th Century Anti Semitism Darwinism Social Darwinism

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.”

World I Can Country States America Born United Accepting United States Europe Welcome Generous Compassionate Traveled United States Of America

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe.”

America Parent Born My Own New York My Friends Europe Including Immigrants

Author:Christopher Walken

“Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do you think we could maybe listen to something that wasn't recorded before I was born?” Only his eyes flicked toward me; the rest of his posture remained the same. "What does it matter to you? I'm the one who's going to be listening to it. You'll be outside running.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.”

Want Born History Knowing Europe Absolutely Nothing Knowing Nothing

Author:Paul Klee

“When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.”

Firsts Nations Born Mets Europe Meetings Slave Respectful Crossroads

Book:African people in world history

Source: African people in world history